The Learning Revolutionary’s Toolbox

Whether you want to sell them or use them for content marketing, to create online courses and other educational products requires the right tools. For discovering the tools you need and which are the best for what you want to accomplish, there is no better source than The Learning Revolutionary’s Toolbox.

The following are links to tools I mention throughout The Learning Revolutionary’s Toolbox. I update these frequently, so be sure to bookmark this page. Also, I encourage you to share this page and the eBook with other course entrepreneurs and aspiring course entrepreneurs. (Hint: the social buttons on this page make that very easy to do. You can also click here to send a Tweet.)

If you are a speaker, trainer, consultant, or simply a subject matter expert who wants to share your knowledge with the world – and maybe generate some income from it – the resources I cover here will definitely jump start and turbo charge your efforts. The same goes for anyone who is in charge of creating content for a trade or professional association, training firm, or a business that wants to leverage educational content marketing.

Create amazing videos for your online courses with Camtasia.

I use nearly all of these tools myself, so I know from experience that they are useful. I also plan to add to the pages here over time as I find new tools that I think you may find useful. My aim isn’t to provide you with the longest list of tools possible, but rather to highlight the ones that I feel are most essential in your efforts to create online courses and other educational content.

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Please send me your suggestions for other great tools and I will be sure to share them here (and give you credit for the suggestion.)And if you have questions about anything you see here, feel free to comment below or on the specific tool page and I’ll do my best to help. – JTC

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Comments

I have benefited a lot from your great contents, really appreciate you shared this information with us.

I have a quick question for you, hope to get some suggestions from you.

I’m mainly targeting China and Japan e-learning markets, those course authoring tools and platforms you recommended here such as Thinkific, Teachable and so on, are primarily for English speakers, and mostly, the contents would be presented in English too. I have contacted those platforms to get a sense of if they are compatible with contents in Chinese and Japanese too, the response I got from them was NO.

And another problem is where do they actually store my contents such as audio, video, I know it is somewhere in the cloud, but my point is can my Chinese and Japanese clients access to my contents via those platforms, you know that China has an Internet Great Wall, limited all the great stuff outside, I did get messages from my Chinese clients stating that they can not access the links(Canada based) I sent them.

So, with that being said, I would like to get some advice from you, do you know any platforms that are compatible with both English and Chinese, as well as Japanese languages. what are they?

to solve my second problem, I did some research on finding platforms or service providers in China so that I can deploy my content on a server that is physically in China, not sure if you have heard it, called WeChat. Have you ever worked on a project that is running on WeChat platform? What would you suggest in terms of course authoring tools or LMS platforms in China?

Summer – While I am not generally a big fan of using Moodle for selling courses, I think that may be a good first option to consider in this instance – perhaps in combination with CourseMerchant. It has some of the more extensive language capabilities available for learning platforms and can handle both Chinese and Japanese. I would do some research to see if there is a Moodle partner in China, or at least in that region of the world. (Moodle itself originates in Australia, so there are bound to be some partners in that region that can handle Pacific rim countries.) I am familiar with WeChat, but it is not a platform I would typically think of in the area of course delivery. Perhaps it is possible, though, that you would be able to store your media files on WeChat and link to them within whatever course platform you end up using to structure the course experience – that’s an area, though, in which I don’t have enough experience to give meaningful advice. – Jeff